placenamesKilbolane
Cill Bhláin
Lewis recorded the transfer of a Synan family monument bearing the date 1446.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Bhláin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilbolane · English · main form
Place & story
A monument retained during rebuilding
When the remains of Kilbolane’s old church were removed, the Synan family tomb was transferred to the new building, according to Samuel Lewis. He recorded the date 1446 on the monument. The replacement church, with a square tower, had been erected in 1832 chiefly at the expense of the Reverend J. Bruce; completion work by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners was still under way when Lewis published his account in 1837. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Orrery and Kilmore
- Coordinates
- 52.33245, -8.84777
- Mapped area
- 40.03 km²
- Logainm ID
- 726 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilbolane. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilbolane: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.